Die Bank of Irland ist profitabel und frischt die Rücklagen auf
Bank of Ireland tells shareholders it is profitable and adding to reserves
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Bank of Ireland is profitable and adding to its capital reserves, according to its latest interim management statement, released at yesterday’s annual general meeting.
One of its key indicators of profitability, the net interest margin, averaged 205 basis points over the first three months of the year. However, Merrion Capital analyst, Ciaran Callaghan said the pace of expansion of the bank’s net interest margin has moderated compared with 2013.
All three domestic Irish banks have struggled with high levels of loan losses since the economy crashed in 2008. Bank of Ireland guided that defaulted loan volumes are continuing to decline, with group defaulted volumes at the end of March 2014 being below the levels at 31 December 2013.
Moreover, total arrears in its Irish mortgage book have continued to fall in the first quarter of 2014, with reductions in both early and default arrears, it said in its IMS.
The group’s loan volumes were €83.3bn at the end of March 2014 compared to c€84.5bn at 31 December 2013, as repayments continued to exceed new lending.
Customer deposits were €74bn at the end of March 2014, which reduced its loan-to-deposit ratio to 112%. Wholesale funding was €25bn at the end of March 2014, of which €7.6bn was Monetary Authority Funding including €3.4bn related to Nama bonds.
The core tier one equity capital at the end of March was 12.3%.
“Encouragingly Bank of Ireland continues to make solid progress on reducing its stock of defaulted loans. This bodes well for the full year impairment charge (we currently forecast a decline of 45% year on year in 2014 to €920m),” said Mr Callaghan in a research note.
“In addition, we also note the potential for the bank to release some of its Irish mortgage provision stock (2013: €1.9bn) by moving model peak-to-trough house price assumptions to actual market valuations (capacity to free up roughly €0.3bn),”
Once again the bank’s agm proved to be a stormy affair. Chief executive Richie Boucher’s €834,000 remuneration package came in for considerable criticism from shareholders. However, Patrick Haren, a member of the board’s remuneration committee, said Mr Boucher’s pay package is “well justified based on his track record”.
Chairman Archie Kane said Bank of Ireland was not asked to raise capital following the Central Bank’s balance sheet assessment last November.
Bank of Ireland tells shareholders it is profitable and adding to reserves
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Bank of Ireland is profitable and adding to its capital reserves, according to its latest interim management statement, released at yesterday’s annual general meeting.
One of its key indicators of profitability, the net interest margin, averaged 205 basis points over the first three months of the year. However, Merrion Capital analyst, Ciaran Callaghan said the pace of expansion of the bank’s net interest margin has moderated compared with 2013.
All three domestic Irish banks have struggled with high levels of loan losses since the economy crashed in 2008. Bank of Ireland guided that defaulted loan volumes are continuing to decline, with group defaulted volumes at the end of March 2014 being below the levels at 31 December 2013.
Moreover, total arrears in its Irish mortgage book have continued to fall in the first quarter of 2014, with reductions in both early and default arrears, it said in its IMS.
The group’s loan volumes were €83.3bn at the end of March 2014 compared to c€84.5bn at 31 December 2013, as repayments continued to exceed new lending.
Customer deposits were €74bn at the end of March 2014, which reduced its loan-to-deposit ratio to 112%. Wholesale funding was €25bn at the end of March 2014, of which €7.6bn was Monetary Authority Funding including €3.4bn related to Nama bonds.
The core tier one equity capital at the end of March was 12.3%.
“Encouragingly Bank of Ireland continues to make solid progress on reducing its stock of defaulted loans. This bodes well for the full year impairment charge (we currently forecast a decline of 45% year on year in 2014 to €920m),” said Mr Callaghan in a research note.
“In addition, we also note the potential for the bank to release some of its Irish mortgage provision stock (2013: €1.9bn) by moving model peak-to-trough house price assumptions to actual market valuations (capacity to free up roughly €0.3bn),”
Once again the bank’s agm proved to be a stormy affair. Chief executive Richie Boucher’s €834,000 remuneration package came in for considerable criticism from shareholders. However, Patrick Haren, a member of the board’s remuneration committee, said Mr Boucher’s pay package is “well justified based on his track record”.
Chairman Archie Kane said Bank of Ireland was not asked to raise capital following the Central Bank’s balance sheet assessment last November.
